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Article: United States: Verizon plans Android-based phones.
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- TendersInfo
- Article date:
- June 26, 2009
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Byline: Mamta03
Verizon Wireless, the largest U.S. mobile-phone carrier, may sell phones based on Google Inc.'s Android operating system in time for the year-end holiday shopping season, a person familiar with the plan said.
The phones, one made by Motorola Inc. and one by HTC Corp., don't yet have prices, the person said. The handsets will probably have touch screens and physical keyboards, said the person who declined to be identified because the plans aren't finalized.
Verizon joins Deutsche Telekom AG's T-Mobile units and Japan's NTT DoCoMo Inc. in offering Android smart phones as operators look to the Internet-capable devices to boost ...